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Sasha Khokha
Central Valley Bureau Chief

Sasha Khokha is KQED's Central Valley Bureau Chief. Based in Fresno, she covers a vast geographic beat, including the nation's most productive farm belt, some of California's poorest towns, and Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks.

Whether trekking up a Sierra glacier with her microphone, interviewing farmworkers in Spanish, or explaining complicated air or water quality issues, Sasha translates rural Central California to listeners in the rest of the state.

Her stories have won an Edward R Murrow Regional Award, as well as awards from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, the California Teachers Association and the Association of Health Care Journalists.

Sasha joined KQED in 2004, after stints as a reporter in Alaska and with NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday.

Sasha's work is also heard on National Public Radio and PRI's The World.

Sasha is a graduate of Brown University and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Sasha is also a documentary filmmaker; her film Calcutta Calling documents the lives of teenage girls adopted from India to Swedish-Lutheran Minnesota. The film was nominated for a national broadcast Emmy in 2007.

Stories (494 archives)

Jerry Brown began his fourth term as California's governor by acting on a promise to bring a bullet train to the state. At a groundbreaking ceremony in Fresno on Tuesday, Brown added his signature to a symbolic piece of track.

California's egg-laying hens are starting off the new year with more spacious digs. That's because of a ballot measure supported by California's voters, requiring more room for the birds to spread their wings. But, there are still some big questions about just how the new law will be enforced.

There's a big change underway for California prisoners serving life sentences: the state is granting many more of them parole. This week, the first California women inmates graduated from a special rehabilitation program that could help them toward this end.

A new report from the Pew Research Center estimates that California is home to 2.5 million undocumented immigrants, more than any other state. Many of those immigrants' lives may change dramatically if President Obama takes executive action to shield some of them from deportation. Advocates anticipate Mr. Obama could make an announcement as early as this week -- and California farmworkers are among those pressuring him to do so. Some of them are part of a group of immigrants laying out a Thanksgiving table in front of the White House as a reminder of whose hands harvest the food so many families will enjoy over Thanksgiving.